Wind Works for America
The numbers are in — America’s top renewable energy resource continues to grow, fostering economic development and delivering clean, low-cost energy across the country....
More Wind, More Jobs
The Department of Energy recently announced there are now more than 100,000 jobs in the wind industry.
That’s the good news.
The better news is that...
Perspective: A Post-Millennialâs View: Deciding to Study Wind
While watching YouTube recently, an ad popped up at the bottom of the video. My immediate reaction was to hit the “X” and get...
Condensing the Curriculum
Today’s wind-energy technology students want to compress their education into a year or less so they can enter the industry workforce right away. Similarly,...
Anatomy of a Component Upgrade
As turbines come out of warranty, turbine owners absorb the costs of failed components but they also gain an opportunity to make reliability and...
Keeping Tabs on Parts and Systems
To avoid the need for costly repair or even replacement, sophisticated equipment in any industry should be accurately monitored and observed to identify maintenance...
Diagnosing Wear Faults
The major issue for premature failure in wind-turbine gearboxes is bearing failure, which leads to gearbox failure. A wind-turbine gearbox will not survive if...
New Database for Hundreds of Test Reports
Throughout the service life of a wind-energy turbine, managers of large wind-farm portfolios have to cope with a veritable deluge of information. In addition...
Improving Joint Integrity
The wind-energy market has been calling for the need to reduce maintenance costs now and especially after the production tax credits expire. Mechanical joint...
Bolting Technology Advancements
Why is using a transducerized tooling system important? To understand that importance, the accuracy difference between transducerized and current-controlled tooling needs to be explained.
Current...
Cranes and Wind Power: A Critical Pairing
Wind energy continues to be a robust industry with wind-farm construction predicted well into 2020. The U.S. Department of Energy’s Wind Vision Report states...
Extreme Blade Transport
The growth of the wind industry in the last decade has brought with it a push for higher efficiency wind turbines and the ability...
Offshore Wind Challenges
Deepwater Wind recently completed construction on its first offshore wind farm in the United States off the coast of Rhode Island. By the end...
Don’t Blame the Oil
In the wind industry, complex organo-metallic gear-oil chemistry and its resulting higher water content have sometimes been blamed for gearbox damage or failure. But...
Advance Warning Advantage
Before the next maintenance inspection for a wind turbine, much can happen. At every turn, critical components can be moving toward failure. Wind turbines...
A Bolt of Knowledge
A carbon-fiber blade from a wind turbine is transformed into shards of debris as it is struck by 30,000-degree lightning.
This disastrous — and costly...
Protecting the Blades
Every year, wind-turbine blades face numerous environmental and weather challenges — including rain, hail, blowing sand, and salt spray — that can cause significant...
Looking North for Solutions
For years, Canada’s wind-energy industry has had the potential to expand its market through exports to the United States, but it is only now...
Syncing Up the Data
At the end of 2015, Canada had commissioned more than 11,000 MW of wind-power capacity, and even more wind farms will be coming online...
BOEM’s Renewable Energy Program
Renewable energy is of critical importance to the nation’s security, economy, and environment. Commercial wind energy is no longer simply an aspirational vision for...
